3E Art -- More accurate than you thought

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Flambeaux wrote:My wife and kids love his YouTube channel. It's gotten one of my boys interested in becoming a blacksmith.
Have him go look up Alec Steele's channel

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I shall. Thanks!
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[sword nerd]
He does it wrong! The blades are just cut out of sheet steel and sharpened -- they're not forged or layered and there's no tang. And he makes the fittings with layers of welds and stock, built up and ground down, when he'd get quicker and better results from lost wax casting.
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They look lovely though.
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